Glittering Muffins » Entries tagged with "painting"
Kid painted chairs
(Jan. 23, 2012) I bought little wood chairs a long time ago (pre Nico) at a thrift shop, I knew I’d have kids and wanted good old solid wood furniture. So now years later, Nico was using them in their used white paint. One day, I asked him if he wanted to paint them, he was very excited, so I promised to sand them a bit (just to rough them up) and we’d paint them. … Read entire article »
Painting without a brush 3 – BIG
He had been asking to make a big painting for a while, so one night after dinner (with cleaning back up from daddy) I set up the plastic mat and tore a big chunk of his paper roll for him to paint on. He wanted to use the finger paint but we couldn’t get the painting tools in the paint jars so we switched to his favorite, glitter paint! We now have a bin that … Read entire article »
Window markers
A few months back when I started looking at blogs for activities, one thing that often came back was window markers. I had never heard of them so I looked for them one day and to my happy surprise they were available here as well. Most blogs I saw it on were US based, so that doesn’t always mean that it’s available in Canada, and often even more difficult in Quebec (different laws than the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Activities, English, Home, Indoors
Rainbow painting surprise!
The other day I bought a Rainbow Art Kit at the thrift store, brand new, not open. I had never seen one like this before, so I had no clue how to use it. Since we bought it, he kept bugging me to use it, so after a few days, I gave in and brought it out. There were several brush sizes and the hard paint pucks were glued to the tray, so he dipped the … Read entire article »
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